Cover
Series Info
Title page
Copyright
Contents
I. Land Acknowledgment Statement
Land Acknowledgment Instructions and Style Guide
Administrator’s Prayer Before Reading a Land Acknowledgment Statement
Official Land Acknowledgment Statement of the Trickster Academy
Abbreviated Land Acknowledgment Statement: A Blackout Poem
Water Acknowledgment Statement
Ofi’ Tohbi’
Abookoshi’ Hapi Oshi (Little Salt Creek)
Submergence
Ceremony of Rending
Ofi’ Tohbi’ Ihina’
Four Directions
We Leave Home
II. What Kind of Trickster Are You?
Just What Kind of Trickster Are You?
The Girl Who Loves Turtles
Found Poem, External Shell
So Your Great-Grandmother Was a Trickster?
Real Indian ABC
Inside Each of Us Are Two Tricksters
Recipe for Water Gravy
Slow to Heal
Chickasaw Word for Trickster
Maps
Indian Giver
How Turtle Got Her Shell
Süper Tradish
Academic Arms Race
How to Read a Book of Poems
#21CenturyIndianProblems
Academic Sideshow Woman
III. Trickster Academy
Trickster Academy
A Seat at the Trickster’s Table
The (American) Indian (Studies) Removal Act of 2014
Before We Were Ashes
Saint Pocahontas
Austerity Measures
Settlers’ Home Journal
This Poem
Trickster Story
Warm Bodies
Recipe for Red Sauce
Footnotes from Methodologies of Soft Tissue
Gifts Between Ghosts
Room 119
Lullaby for Bones
Jack and the Indian Collector
Silent Prayer of an Indian Anthropologist Before Heading to Work
Mother of Bones
This Bundle
Bone Songs
Acknowledgments
About the Author